Effect of preconditioning to the soil environment on the performance of 20 cyanobacterial strains used as inoculum for biocrust restoration

Agriculture & Biology

• biological soil crusts 100%
• edaphic factors 75%
• inoculum 55%
• arid lands 23%
• Tolypothrix 18%
• Microcoleus 18%
• wet-dry cycles 18%
• Scytonema 17%
• hiking 17%
• soil 16%
• Nostoc 14%
• ecosystem services 11%
• anthropogenic activities 11%
• global warming 11%
• roads 10%
• soil fertility 10%
• Cyanobacteria 9%
• lighting 9%
• growth performance 9%
• solar radiation 9%
• grazing 8%
• survival rate 8%
• deterioration 8%
• greenhouses 7%
• cattle 6%
• organisms 6%
• temperature 4%
• testing 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• restoration 49%
• hardening 43%
• soil crust 29%
• soil 27%
• soil fertility 23%
• cattle 21%
• fitness 21%
• cyanobacterium 20%
• ecosystem service 19%
• solar radiation 19%
• grazing 19%
• global warming 18%
• human activity 16%
• crust 16%
• road 15%
• effect 15%
• organism 14%
• erosion 14%
• speed 14%
• services 13%
• exposure 12%
• laboratory 11%
• test 8%
• temperature 8%
• rate 7%